washr - a tool and workflow for sharing data

This 2-day workshop is organised by Global Health Engineering, ETH Zurich and the openwashdata community. Participants will learn about FAIR data principles and through hands-on exercises publish a dataset of their own as an R data package.

🎯 Objectives

A the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

  1. Describe how data published using the washr package follows FAIR principles compared to data shared in an appendix of a PDF or DOCX document.

  2. Follow step by step instruction to create a data package using the washr package.

  3. Understand the difference between human-readible and machine-readible documentation.

📆 Event Details

  • Date: Week of 28th October 2024

  • Location: University of KwaZulu-Natal, WASH R&D Center, Durban, South Africa

📝 Agenda

Time Title Remark
08:30 - 09:00 Check in & Breakfast
09:00 - 09:05 Opening by Mian Zhong
09:05 - 09:50 Introduction workshop for washr R package by Mian Zhong
10:00 - 12:00 Coding Package Setup & Data Cleaning
12:00 - 12:40 Lunch
12:45 - 14:45 Coding Data Cleaning & README writing
14:45 - 15:00 Break / Stretch
15:00 - 15:30 Final Polish Write Feedback Survey
15:30 - 16:15 Showcase
16:25 - 16:30 Closing

🖼️ Slides